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Why did the right pose such serious threats to the Weimar republic in the years 1919-1925?  

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Why did the right pose such serious threats to the Weimar republic in the years 1919-1925? The political Right posed two main "serious" threats to the Weimar Republic. These were done intentionally in order to try and overthrow the government. Furthermore we can learn that the political Right also posed a serious threat to the Weimar Republic since the moderate and conservative parties preferred and favoured for the Right-wing parties. The two main scenes in which we can find these threats highly accentuated are the Kapp Putsch and the Munich Putsch. These two attempted attacks to overthrow the government had a relative effect on the German political life. The first Putsch, attempt to seize power, happened in 1920 when a group of protestants, more or less 12,000 soldiers, marched on Berlin. Along with other disgruntled army officers the Kapp Putsch was planned by Wolfgang Kapp, leader of the Fatherland Party, he planned...

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